monday - may 4, 2026.
at least someone is reading it?
since finishing my most recent zine and making it available for free download i've been leaving copies of several of my one-page zines in the free little libraries in my neighborhood. they're all a few blocks from our apartment so i keep a stack of zines in my jacket pocket so i can plant them while walking jackie. i was surprised to discover this copy had made it's way back to the sidewalk outside our apartment. rather than interpreting this as a the zinster version of waking up next to the bloody head of my favorite horse, i'm instead chosing to be grateful that it didn't look like anyone had wiped their ass with it and keep making zines as usual. my next issue of checkpoint will feature a song/video by REM and i'll continue distibuting the current issue as widely as possible. if you'd like to download the first issue of checkpoint on ko-fi, i'd appreciate it if you print two copies: one for your zine collection and one to leave somewhere in your hometown. the thought of little checkpoints left out in towns all over the world makes me smile.
love y'all!
allie
current mood: 
amused
current music: REM- Losing My Religion
monday - may 4, 2026.
please allow me to brag about my favorite baby, my most honored child, sloth the yeti. sloth is a replacemnt for melody monster, the stuffy i'd slept with for probably 15 years. over time i had repaired her felt face a few times only to eventually give in to entropy, and completely replaced her shredded flower print arms and striped cloth legs with knit arms and legs that flexed under pressure. she was a tired sleep soldier deserving of retirement, and sloth was a GIANT pink sloth musch too large to move with us across the country.
you may recognize this sloth from several of my youtube videos. after considering giving my giant sloth away, i realized it would be much more fun to carve him open and use his parts to make myself a son of my own design.
i spent some time sketching out ideas and found a design i felt honored the shape of melody monster, the face of the giant sloth, and the obsessive doodling of bigfeets and yetis i'd been drawing in my notebook for months.
i'm so pleased with how he turned out. when i see him propped up on the pillows on my side of the bed, i squee every time. it took several hours on the first day to hand sew his body and about 14 hours the second day to hand sew his face and then sew it to his head.
if you know how to teach me how to use a sewing machine, i have one and i don't know how to use it so please, help me.
current mood: 
excited
current music: Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
